The June 2025 update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) introduces several important changes to the data underlying the global poverty estimates. The most important change is the adoption of the 2021 Purchasing Power Parities (PPPs). In addition, new data for India has been incorporated and the existing series adjusted for comparability. This document details the changes to underlying data and the methodological reasons behind them. Depending on the availability of recent survey data, global and regional poverty estimates are reported up to 2023, together with nowcasts up to 2025. The PIP database now includes 74 new country-years, bringing the total number of surveys to over 2,400, for 172 economies.. Further details on the changes are available in this document.
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Team (2025, June 5). PIP Data Updates: PIP data update on June 5, 2025. Retrieved from https://pip-technical-team.github.io/PIP_data_revisions/posts/2025-06-05-pip-data-update/
BibTeX citation
@misc{team2025pip,
author = {Team, PIP Technical},
title = {PIP Data Updates: PIP data update on June 5, 2025},
url = {https://pip-technical-team.github.io/PIP_data_revisions/posts/2025-06-05-pip-data-update/},
year = {2025}
}